There is more than one parallel universe in which Jos Buttler has not just opened the first few doors on his advent calendar in a hotel room in the Caribbean.
Had England's World Cup not gone so disastrously wrong, a fully second-string side might have made the trip to the West Indies and the skipper been afforded what increasingly looks some much-needed rest, for the ODI leg of the tour at least. There again, had there been a more trigger-happy leadership in place higher up the ECB chain of command, then perhaps his captaincy would not have survived the World Cup debacle at all.
